In the early days of computer baseball games I played Tony LaRussa Baseball, which had historical players that you could use to assemble teams and simulate seasons.
I tried this.
Even with starting lineups of Ruth, Gehrig, Cobb, Williams, Wagner, Bench, etc. the absolute best at each position, the teams would still lose 30-40 games out of 162.

In the early days of computer baseball games I played Tony LaRussa Baseball, which had historical players that you could use to assemble teams and simulate seasons.
I tried this.
Even with starting lineups of Ruth, Gehrig, Cobb, Williams, Wagner, Bench, etc. the absolute best at each position, the teams would still lose 30-40 games out of 162.

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We have steroids now. How much better would Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb be if they played today?